I Read Comic Books
A podcast for comic book fans, hosted by Mike Rapin. IRCB features a rotating, 2-person panel of diverse comic book experts discussing what they’re reading with a comic book specific topic every week. New episodes every Wednesday.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 61 minutes
- Episodes
- 524
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Episode 392 | If King Of The Hill Was An Anime
This week, it's Mike, Nick and Brian talking comics and making bad Star Trek jokes. We're very sorry.
Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 - Start / Last Week in Comics
- 00:01:40 - How to Grill Our Love Vol 1
- 00:11:33 - …
Episode 391 | Scaring The Pants OUT Of Me
Mike, Zach, and Nick give one final hurrah to Halloween with a discussion of some of their favorite, actually scary comic books.
Check out Zach's podcast, The Comics That We Love: https://kite.link/th…
Episode 390 | Go Look At A Real Boob
Recorded LIVE on Twitch! Mike, Danny, and Kara discuss Booster Gold Vol. 1: 52 Pickup! A commissioned on Patreon by our good pal Keith!
Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 - Start / Last Week in Comics
- 00:01:04 - Ever…
Episode 389 | Don’t Let Some Boy Get His Fangs in You
Kait and Brian visit Mike for his birthday and they ended up recording a podcast talking about comic books. Wow!!
Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 - Start / Last Week in Comics
- 00:01:38 - The Witch of Thistle Castl…
Episode 388 | Gambit Will Show You Anything Under That Trench Coat
Danny, Tia, and Kate take over the show this week to read and discuss Gambit comics, per Mike's request. And Tia's cat Holiday makes a background appearance.
Comics read and discussed this episode:
- GAM…
Episode 387 | Teeth: A Tail For Your Face
The second in our 2-part series about Transformers! Mike, Kara, and Kate talk about Transformers comics, the problems with digital comic licensing, and more!
Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 - Start / Last Week in…
Episode 386 | We’d Strangle Sam Witwicky In An Instant (ft. Kev from Austin Danger Podcast)
Mike, Brian, and Danny are joined by Kev of the Austin Danger Podcast to talk about the live-action Transformers movie universe as part 1 of 2 of our Transformers journey to celebrate the new Transfo…
Episode 385 | Divorced Dad Energy (ft. Brandon Ingram)
Mike, Paul, and Nick are joined by Brandon Ingram to talk comics and Brandon's latest Kickstarter: The Gallows Man: Tales From Town's City!
Check out the The Gallows Man: Tales From Town's City Kickst…
Episode 384 | There's Law And Then There's Order
Mike, Zach, and Brian discuss how they would turn some of their favorite properties into comics using the "IDW Treatment."
Check out the new IRCB Website: https://www.ircbpodcast.com
Listen to Zach's p…
Minisode 63 | So much love for the comics community (with Oscar Osorio)
Mike sat down with Oscar Osorio to talk comics and Oscar's experience with breaking into comics, using Zoop as a crowdfunding space, and how the comics community helped him get his start as a comic b…
Episode 383 | Touched Grass This Month
Mike, Nick, and Paloma dig on a commissioned episode asking the questions: Is there a formula to a successful comic book? Why do comics lend to constant retellings?
Thank you to a good fan of the podc…
Episode 382 | Sorry to Shonen Jump
Danny hosts this week and is joined by Paloma and Kait! The gang discusses comics they've been reading and comics on the top of their pile but the main discussion focuses on some of the mainstream di…
Episode 381 | Ten Places to Buy Meth But No Place to Buy Food
Mike is BACK and Tia and Zach join him to talk comics, cute Xenomorphs, flyover states, and cryptids.
Check out Zach's podcast: The Comics That We Love!
Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 - Start / Last Week in Comi…
Episode 380 | You're Free To Do What Your Told
Paul takes the lead this week with Kait and Kate in tow to talk about non-fiction comics!
Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 - Start / Last Week in Comics
- 00:00:45 - Batman Vol 1: Their Dark Designs
- 00:04:25 - The Arr…
Episode 379 | The Brutal Murders of Tintin
Kara steps in to run IRCB this week and has wrangled Nick and Brian to talk a comic favorite of hers: The Adventures of Tintin!
Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 - Start / Last Week in Comics
- 00:01:03 - Starfinder: …
IRCB Movie Club #2 | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
Originally posted on Patreon, March 31, 2020!
Paul is joined by Mike and Brian for the second episode of IRCB Movie Club to discuss the film Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010, dir. Edgar Wright) and …
Minisode 62 | Really Cool Girl Comics
Kara and Kait revisit an old classic IRCB format: Book vs Book. This time they read Junkwraith and Kaya Vol. 1! Spoilers ahead!!
Music provided by Infinity Shred. Find them on Bandcamp.
IRCB Avatars by…
Minisode 61 | Ice Cream Man Volume 8: Subjects & Objects
Mike and Nick are back with everyone's favorite deep-dive series: Ice Cream Man. This time, it's Volume 8: Subjects & Objects.
Ice Cream Man written by W. Maxwell Prince, pencils & inks by Martin Mor…
Candybar Antlerboy Episode 16 | "The Ballad of the Last Men"
Join Mike and Danny every week as they comb over each episode of the Netflix series and discuss.
This episode discusses Episode 16 of the Netflix series Sweet Tooth, "The Ballad of the Last Men."
It's …
Minisode 60 | Time Wars: the Adventures of Kobra Olympus with Bijhan Agha
Mike is joined by Bijhan Agha to talk comics they've been reading and Bijhan's latest Kickstarter for "Time Wars: the Adventures of Kobra Olympus!"
Support the Kobra Olympus Kickstarter!
Timestamps:
- 00:…